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SECTION TWO
MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1955
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Machine Age Said Causing
Disaooearance of Organ
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Grinders From U.S. Scene
St. Louis, Mo. (U.R) Organ
grinders have all but disap
peared from American streets,
nd Harold Turpin of St. Louis,
one of the last of our hurdy
gurdy men, believes he knows
the reason why. '
"Iff the machine age," he
taid. "No one makes the old
fashioned wood pipe organs any
more. They make the new ones
with metal t pipes. They just
don't sound right."
They probably sound better
from a musical point of view but
they don't have the wheezy
charm which Turpin and his
dwindling number of colleagues
can coax out of a wood pipe or
gan. Eight Heal Grinders Left
Turpin figures there are only
ight real organ grinders left in
America and it appears there
will be no one to take' their
place. These hurdy gurdy men
are making their last stand in
"picturesque" sections of big
cities, such as Bourbon street
in New Orleans and Chinatown
in San Francisco.
Even in those surroundings
hurdy gurdy men have trouble
making ends meet these days.
There is no exception.
"In Houston," Turpin said,
"the city pays an old time organ
grinder to walk the streets just
to give the city some atmo
sphere." Turpin himself has become
an off street organ grinder.
Things became so tough on the
boulevards he switched to a
traveling show. He has been in
the movies, too.
"I'm as Irish as they come but
ihey always made me an Ital
ian in the movies," he said.
"And who ever saw an Italian
organ grinder with a monkey."
Anyone who knows his hurdy
gurdy men would never make
that mistake. Turpin explained.
Italian organ grinders usually
work with birds, Hungarian,
Dutch and Belgian organ grind
ers Drefer a trained bear. It's
the Irish organ grinders who
generally have a monkey to pass
the tin cup.
Turpin credits much of his
success to the old wood pipe or
gan he uses. He treasures it the
way a violinist would treasure
a Stradivarius. It was built in
Germany in 1876 and given to
him by his father, who was an
animal trainer.
Shortage Found in
Springfield Funds
Springfield, Ore. (U.R) - A
state auditor today, in a pre
liminary report to the city coun
cil here, said he had uncovered
a shortage "in excess of $15,500"
in police department funds.-
F. J. Gould of the state bureau
of audit said the figure was sub
ject to revision in his final re
port. He planned to spend an
other week here, and his final
report would not be ready until
two or three weeks after his re
turn to Salem.
The city council called for the
audit of city funds several
weeks ago after a member of
the police department was in
dicted on a charge of conversion'
of public funds.
Former police sergeant Merrill
Parke has pleaded innocent to
the charge, and trial has been
set for April 19. His indictment
mentioned a sum less than $100.
Gould, in his verbal report,
mentioned no names.
FILM AVAILABLE The views above are taken from a new
film, "It's Everybody's Business," which has been acquired by
' the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, and is available
for showing by interested groups. The 16 mm film is in color,
with sound. Produced by the E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.,
Inc., and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, it tells the "busi
ness story" of America, and chamber sources say it illus
trates how the freedoms guaranteed by the constitution have
enabled American, business and labor to outproduce the world.
The 22-minute picture can be borrowed from the chamber
here, 5 South Riverside ave.
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Refugees From All Walks of Life Flee
Communist 'Paradise' of North Viet Nam
Aboard the Marine Adder en
route to Saigon, Indochina (U.R)
Dancing girls and new born
babies, monks and opium ad-
oicts, gamblers and spies sprawl
in the crowded hold of this U.S
Navy ship bound together by
one common tie, a passionate de
sire for freedom.
The 3500 persons aboard the
Marine Adder come from all
walks of life and from all eco
nomic strata. But they are all
fleeing the "peasant paradise
of the Ho Chi Minh regime in
Communist North Viet Nam.
Already the Marine Adder has
carried more than 28,000 refu
gees. More than 500,000 in all
have been carried from Haip
hong to South Viet Nam by
United States and French ships.
The total, who have moved south
Cub Scout Leaders
Slate 'Pow-Wow'
Sunday Afternoon
The annual Cub Scout lead
ers "Pow Pow" of the Crater
Lake Area council will be held
Sunday, March 27, from 1 to 5
p. m. at the Medford Junior High
school gym.
Cub pack leaders in the Med
ford area are building a "mid
way of games, stunts and cub
activities where other leaders at
tending will have an opportunity
to get new ideas for cub activ
ities. Lawson Scott, cubmaster
of Pack 15, Phoenix Presbyterian
church, is chairman of the mid
way and is assisted by Ken
Bramhall, cubmaster of Pack 2,
Lincoln PTA; Ray Elmgren, Oak
Grove PTA, and Jim Johnston,
cubmaster of 'Pack 6, Washing
ton PTA. Other Cub packs have
helped to put on the ".midway of
Cubbing" fun and activities.
Four Sessions
"There will be four sessions
simultaneously after the mid
way," accoramg to John J. Pat-
ton, council training chairman.
The handicraft session will be
under the leadership of Domenic
Favero, cubmaster of Pack 54,
Yreka, and Larry Lundin, assist
ant executive of the council.
Mike Morris, Cub training chair
man of the Big Pines district,
Medford, will again conduct the
session on games The pack ad
ministration session is under the
leadership of Alfred "Duke"
Middleton, commissioner from
Jerome Prairie and Grants Pass.
The ceremonies and entertain
ment session will be led by John
Patton, assisted by Cliff Hanson,
Scout executive. " '
All cubmasters, den mothers,
and committeemen of each pack
were urged to attend the Pow
Wow, and select the session they
wish to attend. "Everybody will
have the opportunity to attend
the county fair midway but each
pack should be certain at least
one leader attends one each of
the four special sessions," Patton
stated. The games and handicraft
sessions are planned basically
for den mothers and committee
men. The administration and the
ceremonies and entertainment
sessions are planned for the cub
masters and pack committeemen.
Anyone interested in cubbing
is invited to attend and enjoy
the fun, fellowship and get in
on the many cubbing helps and
ideas, Patton said.
Police Search for
Missing Youngster
Detroit (U.R) Police said to
day they feared a "very quiet,
reserved seven year old girl,
missing since Thursday morning
has been slain by a sex criminal.
More than 200 police and vol
unteers began a house-to-house
search for Barbara Gaca shortly
after she failed to return from
school for lunch.
Her mother, Mrs. Rita Gaca,
29, called her school when the
3V4 foot, brown-haired girl fail
ed to return home. Teachers told
Mrs. Gaca her daughter had not
arrived at school and they had
presumed she stayed home be
cause of illness.
Police began " an immediate
search of the entire neighbor
hood, looking in garbage cans,
abandoned ice boxes and other
places where a small girl might
hide. Then they began to round
up all known sex devites and
questioned them.
Nothing concrete turned up to
lead them to the missing girl.
ENOUGH TRAVEL
Harmony, Minn. (U.R) Gran
ville Bates, postoffice employee
here for 37 years, traveled 458,
000 miles without a single acci
dent as a rural mail carrier.
Bates used four horses and sev
en cars during that time. Now
he is retiring.
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"Treat them nice. These are
real fine people, they have suf
fered a lot," says Captain An
thony St. Angelo of Providence.
R.I., to his sailors, many of
whom are from Seattle, Wash.
Most of the refugees are just
simple peasant folk who would
never have left their rice pad
dies and buffaloes if the Com
munists had not come with high
taxes and funny ideas.
The sailors lend a hand as
they clambor aboard with babes
and baggage.
Soon the refugees are stowed
away below. They are sprawled
everywhere. The four tiers of
bunks overflow with legs and
arms.
In no time they are strum
ming away on their guitars.
Slim, dark mothers are breast
feeding little ones, while goat
bearded grandpas suck away at
opium pipes.
Mutual Tolerance
The United States Bureau of
Narcotics would be horrified,
but here mutual tolerance is the
law. We do not call them dope
fiends and they do not call us
cigarette fiends.
There are Lt. P. L. Westling,
Lt. P. .J. King of Seattle, nine
navy corpsmen and four Viet
namese nurses.
At night, as the ship plows
through the smooth sea, Ensign
James Blair of - Pittsburgh
makes the rounds.
With the gentleness of a
mother he tucks in a babe's leg
awkwardly hanging over the
edge of a bunk.
He puts out the opium lamps
of the late users and tells the
gamblers to tuck themselves
and their money away.
A psychotic woman, battling
an unseen inner foe and eager
to throw herself overboard, is
led away to the padded cell.
A Catholic prayer book falls
from the hands of a peasant
woman overtaken by sleep. An
old man utters Buddhistic wis
doms. On deck, a tough peasant tells
admirers of his escape. With a
10 year old girl he walked 100
miles to Haiphong.
In the hospital, a tired spy
sits bolt upright on a bed, his
face pale and worn with ma
laria. He spied for the French
for $50 a month. He was taken
prisoner by the Reds and unex
plainably released.
Now he is worried about his
back pay from the French and
what he will do in the future.
"Do the Americans need a
good spy?" he asks.
SPELLING BEE
Lincoln, Neb. (U.R) Nebras
ka legislators are having trouble
with a bill to permit fluoridation
of water in some Nebraskan
cities. Seems the printer is hold
ing up the show. Four times the
bill has reached the clerk's of
fice, with a word spelled in
correctly. The word: 'fluoridation.'
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